OAKLAND Have a passion for Miss Piggy? Transported by a tutu?
The FileBank storage facility on Thornton Road takes care of them all. Jim Henson Productions stores an estimated 69,000 Muppet items here, near the canvas-wrapped racks of off-season costumes for the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Ballet, just around the corner from centuries of school and municipal records.
Over time, owner Greg Copeland, 83, has devised what he terms a boutique storage service model. His staff can find and transmit one page from 100 years of old records in 15 minutes a service appreciated by the 350 school districts and municipalities that park their physical documents on FileBank shelves, most recently the Wisconsin Air National Guard.